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Codasip Appoints Coby Hanoch as VP of Worldwide Sales (Sep. 25, 2014)
Application specific Instruction processor (ASIP) design tool and IP provider Codasip, today announced that Coby Hanoch has joined its executive team as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Coby will play a key role in driving the international expansion of Codasip and help bring its industry leading tools and IP to design teams around the globe.

Rambus Expands Cryptography Research Division Leadership Team (Sep. 12, 2014)
Rambus today announced the expansion of the Cryptography Research division leadership team, including Dr. Simon Blake-Wilson as vice president, Products and Marketing, Philippe Martineau as senior director of Ecosystem Business Development, and Ron Perez as Systems Security Fellow.

Imagination Technologies Group plc - Board Changes (Aug. 14, 2014)
Imagination Technologies Group announces that David Hurst-Brown will retire as a non-executive director at the AGM in September. The Group has today also appointed Kate Rock as a non-executive director.

eASIC Appoints Richard Deranleau as Chief Financial Officer (Jul. 21, 2014)
eASIC today announced the immediate appointment of Richard Deranleau as the company’s Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance. Mr. Deranleau was recently SVP, Finance and CFO for a $1.1 Billion North American operating company of Fujitsu, Ltd. and was previously CFO of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc..

Crossbar, Inc. Names Ron Richter VP of Sales (Jun. 16, 2014)
Crossbar, Inc., a start-up pioneering Resistive RAM (RRAM) technology, today announced that semiconductor industry veteran Ron Richter joined the company as vice president of sales. Heading up Crossbar’s new sales organization, Richter will be responsible for driving the company’s global sales strategy and organization as it readies its technology to go to market.

Industry veteran Tony Picard joins videantis as sales VP (Jun. 06, 2014)
Videantis announced today that Tony Picard has joined the company as its vice president for sales, reporting to CEO Hans-Joachim Stolberg. Picard will be responsible for driving customer success and further adoption of the videantis unified video/vision processor IP.

Sonics Appoints New Asia Sales Director (May. 13, 2014)
Sonics today named Yong Ho On as the new Asia Sales Director. On's hire will strengthen Sonics' presence in Asia and help develop the company's SoC market share in China, Korea and Taiwan. On represented Sonics in Korea for eon Technologies from 2002-2004, when Sonics closed its first licenses with a major Korean semiconductor and systems company.

ARM Holdings PLC Announces Retirement of CFO in May 2015 (May. 01, 2014)
ARM announces today that Tim Score, who has been Chief Financial Officer since 2002, has decided to retire from the company twelve months from now in May 2015. Since joining ARM, Tim has been an integral part of the leadership team responsible for growing ARM’s revenues, profits and returns to shareholders over a sustained period.

Eric Penain to join Reflex CES as Sales Director (Apr. 28, 2014)
Reflex CES (Custom Embedded Systems), a provider of Modified-Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) solutions and turnkey embedded systems, today announced that Eric Penain joins the company as Sales Director. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, Eric’s role is to define and execute the company’s national and international sales development strategy.

Tech Veteran Jerry Rudiak Joins Vidatronic as VP (Apr. 01, 2014)
Vidatronic, Inc. announced that technology veteran, Jerry Rudiak, will join the company as Vice President of Business Development and Applications Engineering. Jerry has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of seminconductor solutions for power management applications. Jerry also brings needed depth in the area of global business development.

Arteris Recruits World-Class Engineering Leadership Team (Feb. 18, 2014)
Arteris today announced that Craig Forrest, Dave Parry and Benoit de Lescure have joined Arteris to perform critical leadership roles on the Arteris engineering leadership team. Forrest joins Arteris as Chief Technology Officer; Parry as Vice President of Engineering; and de Lescure as Director of Application Engineering.

XMOS appoints Simon Knowles as Chief Technology Officer (Feb. 04, 2014)
XMOS has today announced the appointment of Simon Knowles to the role of Chief Technology Officer and member of the Board of Directors. Knowles has a strong track record as both engineer and entrepreneur, having co-founded and exited two highly successful fabless semiconductor companies, Element14 Inc. and Icera Inc, for a combined value of over $1billion.

ARM: Appointment of New Chairman (Jan. 27, 2014)
ARM Holdings plc announces that Sir John Buchanan is stepping down as Chairman, at his request, due to a medical condition. The Board has conducted a thorough search and is pleased to announce that Stuart Chambers will join the Board today as Chairman designate and will succeed Sir John Buchanan as Chairman on 1 March 2014.